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Show SMS PEACENQW I WOULD BE FARCE BRITISH PREMIER DECLARES HALF WAY WAR STAND IS TREACHERY. Allies and America Must Take Up Struggle Where Russia Left Off and Fight on to Victory. Steady Progress Being Made. London. That steady progress towards to-wards the desired goal is being made by the allies, despite some untoward occurrence, is fhe firm conviction of Premier Lloyd George, he declared on Friday. It is because of this fact, the premier pre-mier said, that he would regard peace overtures to Prussia at the moment when her military spirit was drunk with boastfulness as a betrayal of the trust of himself and his colleagues. The premier's words were : "It is because I am firmly convinced .that despite some untoward events, despite discouraging appearances, we are making steady progress toward the goal that I would regard peace overtures to Prussia at the very moment mo-ment the Prussian military spirit is drunk with boastfulness as a betrayal of the great trust with which my colleagues col-leagues and myself have been charged." If Russia persists in her present policy, the premier pointed out, the withdrawal by the enemy from the east of a third of bis troops must release re-lease hundreds of thousands of men and masses of material to attack Great Britain, France and Italy. "It would be folly," he added, "to underrate the danger, equal folly to exaggerate it, and the greatest folly of all not to face it. "If the Russian democracy has decided de-cided to abandon the struggle' against military autocracy, the American democracy dem-ocracy is taking it up." Germany's victories were emblazoned emblaz-oned to the world, the premier said, but- her troubles did not appear in bulletins. Something was known of them, however. The deadly grip of the British navy was having its effect, ef-fect, and the valor of the troops was making an impression which would tell in the end. He said those who during the past fortnight were organizing organ-izing a nervous breakdown in the nation na-tion were the same as those who recently re-cently were organizing a hyterical shout over the Flanders victories. |